Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 24
"It would take too much time to explain," said the stork, flying quickly away.
Who acts: It, stork · What happens: take, explain, say, fly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, stork), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 explain | mark |
| 9 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stork | det |
| 14 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flying | punct |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flying | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | would | It | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the stork not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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